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[Siam-Tiger]

Hi everybody,

written exams are over and my termbreak has begun. Perfect time to get back at assembling, glueing, basing and especially painting.

Rough list about whats still waiting for paint

Warhammer Fantasy Empire
~ 850 Miniatures
incl. 100 mounted figs, 5 Steamtank, countless core units and characters

Warhammer 40.000 Space Marine - Legion Canum incl. PDF
40 Tactical Space Marines (10 fertig)
10 Assault Space Marines
15 Space Marine Vets
28 Terminators
~20 Characters
5 Dreads
2 Land Raider
5 SM Tanks
2 Leman Russ
1 Heavy Support Mortian
1 Baneblade
1 Stormsword
12 Bikes
3 Scout Bikes
3 Assault Bikes
4 Land Speeder
15 Scouts

Blood Bowl
Orkteam incl. Big Guy and Starplayers
Humanteam incl. Big Guy and Starplayers
Chaosteam incl. Big Guy, Mutants and Starplayers
Highelfteam incl. Starplayers
Undeadteam with all variants
Norseteam incl. Ogre
Skaventeam incl. Big Guy, Mutants and Starplayers
Dwarventeam incl. Starplayer and Deathroller

Legends of the Old West
3 Gangs (Desperados, Lawmen and Cowboys)

Necromunda
1 Van Saar Gang
1 Delaque Gang
1 Arbites Squad
+ X Characters

Inquisitor
~ 6-8 54mm Miniatures (growing)

Random
several limited Miniatures (Harry the Hammer, Bugman Variants, Games Day Minis)
and countless Characters und Single miniatures

Starting situation:
My hobby room was straighten up, boxes thrown away and everything in sprues was taken out of them. Next step, making room on the desk and setting up my notebook in visual range for DVD support at longer sessions.
Beside several Blood Bowl Teams, my WHFB Empire Army and a whole lot of sideprojects, there is although my Brueckenkopf Space Marine Army, the Legio Canum, waiting to get painted.

Workspace:


Space Marines, several Terminator Squads and 2 tactical Squads.


At the moment you see more or less only the Terminator Squads, that were build frmo Black Reach or White Dwarf Terminators with the exception of 5 Miniatures.

For the reason, that I really don't dig the design of the Grey Knight Terminators, I decided to build my own Inquisitorial "Elite" Terminators.



Of course, you have to give them a proper Leader, so here we go, an Inquisitor in Terminator Armour.


I have the old rogue trader inquisitors in terminator armour, but these are so small, that i have to see what i can do, to make the - at least - look bigger.

[Siam-Tiger]

So, this i gonna be a long post, because of the picture limit.

Space Marines - Legio Canum

The own space marine chapter of the Brueckenkopf got a slightly re-done paint scheme and an own chapter symbol.



I´m still working on the right way of getting the grey on to the miniatures, but as a small preview how i imagine it, i made a small picture with photoshop (those Miniatures aren't mine, they are from the web of one of the first Black Reach Previews on http://www.thepainteddragon.co.uk/).

[Siam-Tiger]

Back from the old days of the 2nd and 3rd WH40k Edition i still have some Space Marine Miniatures left. The old terminators look kind a small beside the new ones and especially next to regular Space Marines. So i stretched them by adding plastic card on their hips and shoulders to make them look bolder




The first squad, primed Terminators was done.

[Siam-Tiger]

And so was the 2nd Squad of BR Terminators


and the 3rd Squad of BR Terminators


as was the 4th Squad, mixed with BR and Assault Terminators and equipt with e-hammers and Stormshields.


and of course a 5th Squad with the left over e-claws from the assault terminator squad box, built from BR and assault terminators.

[Siam-Tiger]

But all these terminators need fitting characters, these are the first 3, the chapter master is still work in progress


At this point i would like to point out, that you can mix the parts of Black Reach, White Dwarf and regular terminators very well. Especially because you get 2 complete weapons sets from the assault terminator box (5 E-Hammers & Shields, 5 E-claws), you can build 2 cheap(er) squads by giving the additional weapon set to a BR Terminator Squad. If you misc the front torsi, so you can re-arrange some of the heads, you get a whole lot a variations from those 3 poses the BR terminators have.

Of course, every space marine chapter needs some fire support, in my case with Dreadnaughts and a Razorback.

BR Dread with scratchbuilded Rocketlauncher and sync. Lasercannon


BR Dread Iron Clad WIP, gets FW Assault Drill and sync. hvy Bolters as seismic hammer and hurricane bolter system.

[Siam-Tiger]

From the BR Dread multimelta you can build so many different Dread weapons with some parts from the IA hvy wpn teams or SM devastor bitz, for example like this plasma cannon


Razorback with sync. hvy stubbers. No rule thoughts, just a wanted to do conversion.

[Siam-Tiger]

So for a little bit of organising, seperate post for the sideprojects and bb stuff

The Mighty Zug - first miniature after a painting break of about 7 years, is the new standard that i want to archiv the rest of my miniatures.



cross my miniature cabins, several miniatures a like for their design, no thoughts about rules or anything.

An "older" project, Abaddon 2.0, based on the new plastic terminator lord.


But he seemed a little bit left alone, so i decided to give him a retinue of 4 chaos-god specific champions.


I updated Abaddon in the meantime, the holds his claw in another position to make him look more aggressiv / greedier.
Those miniatures will have to wait some time to get painted, as i want to paint them when i´m on my highest level of painting. Pure cabin miniatures.

Several single miniatures from the left to the right;
Warrior priest that i´m trying some green stuff techniques with. Mage with changed pose, first larger attemp with GS. Artizan Western Range Priest (there will be a lot more to come) and 2 gaming markers for my Empire Army made from warmaster empire knights.

[Siam-Tiger]

As some people recommend me to shorten / rearrange the Inquisitors weapon, i shortened it a bit, looks better now



The inquisitorial terminator squad is built and ready for priming. The hvy wpn guy carries a heavy psi-bolter. I tried several combinations with flamer bitz, but it wasn't looking bold enough.

[Siam-Tiger]

Beside that, i prepared 2 Squads of Assault Marines / Vanguard Marines. Now i just have to glue the jump packs and some Sigillum Sanctum on them.




The marines do have several vehicles, already primed, waiting for paint and assembling;
2 Land Raider (1 Phobos + 1 Prometheus / Crusader)
1 Predator
1 Razorback
1 Rhino / Whirlwind
1 Vindicator
6 Bikes
1 Trike
1 Land Speeder

[Siam-Tiger]

And yet more characters to come, in terminator and servo armour.




As already told, i rearranged the claw on abaddon, its now looking like that.



And another wip, my waraltar of Morr, based on a corpse cart.

[Siam-Tiger]

Another load of miniatures

SM Captain (i´m gonna re-set the right shoulder pad, it is to far from the body)


SM Commando Squad (atm dipped in sand)


Sternguard Vets Squad 1 + 2





Due to the fact, that i´ve written the review of Victrix Napoleonics today, the painting phase has been pushed another day away. So it starts tomorrow, with the first paint on the space marines.

[Siam-Tiger]

Everyday the same basic programm: sanding & priming.



And of course, like i promised, i started to paint. My first troops were the tactical squads, because if you screw them up, its no problem - or at least not that big of a problem- as opposed to screwing up elite troops or characters.

Starting situation


FIRST BLOOD! ... erm Paint!

After some tryouts, how i achive what i was looking for in a some what reasonable time, i came along with this.

First coat is Codex Grey, then a good load of Badab Black, after that drybrush with Codex Grey. For the highlights i used Codex Grey with a tiny amount of Skull White. Interesting thing is, Codex Grey is the same color as the gw plastic. For example, the backpack isn't even primed, its badab black directly on the plastic and drybrushed with Codex Grey.
The base is Graveyard Earth with a wash of badab black. I´m thinking about giving it another coat of ligther brown, but i like the mushy effect.
I´m gonna redo the metalls on the bolter, the mithril highlight is to strong on the sidepart. The weapons in the whole army will be drilled and i´m really looking forward to the more detailled miniatures, because the quite simple AOBR Marines kinda suck.

[Siam-Tiger]

Update.

Small changings to the painting theme, i did some black lining on the shoulder pads and changed the lensecolor from red into green. The whole marine would have an awkward look completly in red



Looks that way on the miniature.



The rest of the tactical squad is in work, as is a SM captain. Unfortunately work and Burnout Paradise keep me from beeing more effective / faster.



Big Priming. First time dwarven und highelf team and a re-do for my Chaos team. Unfortunately i primed them with the dipping primer from dragon colour, that was a big mistake as the paint is chipping of and forces me to repaint the team. It was quite close to finished.

[Plastic Bolter]

Your conversions are all brilliant, especially the grey knight terminators. The Plasmagun conversion for the dreadnought is also a good idea to and looks easy to make.

[Netherghoul]

love the conversions as well, they surely inspire

[Col. Wales]

Nice conversionas. The Abbadon should have his sword more upright as opposed to stabbing someone as the LC is kinda beconing some sap to step up and get it.

[Siam-Tiger]

Not that anyone starts thinking, i would give up. The first 5 marines squad is ready for battle, just small detail touch-ups like decals or something like that.



The rest of that squad is still in progress, as the first captain is.


While tidying up the desk and cupboard i found 2 older paint test. Just to see how the paint job would look on miniature. I´m having a hard time with the foundation colors, primary with adeptus battlegrey. The thinned down color dries up very fast and the pigments sink in the wet color, so your paint is getting darker and darker while your painting.



And for variation during painting, my high elf team, waiting for basing.

[Harry]

Wowsers. some nice conversions. Especially like the movement you have got into the assault squad's.

Love grey SpaceMarine schemes. So will enjoy seeing these progress.

Great paint job on the Mighty Zug. We should be in for a treat with the rest of this.

[Siam-Tiger]

The Legio Canum will be supported with Auxiliaris of the Inquisition, including Tanks of course. 2 Leman Russ Battletanks that i am converting at the moment into Demolisher and Vanquish. At first only the turrets as i will wait until the new codex is done, for new rules and options for defensive weapons

Parts: Leman Russ BT Turret, 1 imperial cannonbarrel and 1iImperialer mortar



Of course i keep up with the marines. The sergeant and rpg marine are ready for gaming, just a few details to touch up. The captain is still wip, but got his red helmet as a veteran of the LC.



And the first terminator squad gets paint as well. Still wip, and i can't say it often enough. First paint, then glue. There are so many tiny corners i can't reach with the brush and it makes painting simply awefull.

[wiggles]

Doesn't it really get you down painting stuff exactly the same colour as the plastic? I had that going on once too. It felt like I wasn't accomplshing anything.